This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Donnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QY.2ADE/391.403 Message Board Post: Hi, Don't know if there would be any connection, with Mary O'Donnell, but my great-grandfather, Neil O'Donnell, of County Donegal was out in the Gold Rush and was in Rose Bar Township (now part of Smartville I believe) in 1860. Neil came from Cruit Island off the west coast of Donegal, and was son of Manus. He returned to Ireland in the early 1860s. Marie